Much "civility" claptrap issuing from the usual sources (white guys, old & privileged, in the Puffho).
Look, the shooter was a paranoid & delusional schizophrenic. The sudden introduction of the civility for which wretched old honkies (Of whom, in the interests of disclosure, we is one, 'though not wretched in the way Fineman, Paul Helmke or other media villagers are.) pine into the discourse would not have made George Wallace's proverbial dime's worth of difference to the young man alleged to have killed & wounded his fellow humans in a Tucson parking lot.
Attention has been paid to Arizona's recent passage of a concealed weapons carry law & to Sarah Palin & others (Rep. Giffords' opponent in the recent election among them) using violent, gun-oriented imagery & rhetoric to play to their threatened, fearful base, but (especially considering Arizona's attitude toward the medically indigent) the first place we should look in the finger-pointing process is Arizona's treatment (if any, ha ha) of its mentally ill population.
Besides the state's assurance that every disturbed paranoid (who is a legal resident) can get at least one gun.
(Cross-posted, where the commenting system must be better.)
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